High School

What poetic device does Yeats use in the underlined portions of the following excerpt from "Down by the Salley Gardens"?

"love easy, as the leaves"

The underlined words are "love" and "leaves."

A. Personification - attributing human characteristics to something nonhuman
B. Onomatopoeia - a word that imitates the sound that it describes
C. End rhyme - rhyme at the end of poetic lines
D. Alliteration - repetition of beginning sounds of words in close proximity

Answer :

Answer:

D. alliteration - repetition of beginning sounds of words in close proximity.

Explanation:

"Down by the Salley Gardens" is a poem by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939).

The given excerpt "love easy, as the leaves" is part of the line "She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;".

The repetition of the "l" sound in "love" and "leaves" is an example of alliteration, which involves the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of closely connected words, creating a rhythmic and melodic effect.